When Guatemala's new president, Alfonso Portillo, took his oath of office on Jan . 14 he pledged to solve the murder of a Catholic bishop and vigorous human rights activist who was bludgeoned to death in 1998.
PIETRO ALLAR New York, July 31 , 2011To the Editor: There has been a vigorous human rights mobilization against the virulent anti-Muslim campaign now under way in Tennessee and across the country.
What is needed is a vigorous defense of human rights, support for civil society and stepped-up programs like academic exchanges.
The most vocal critic has been a Democrat, Representative Tom Lantos of California, the ranking member of the International Relations Committee and a vigorous advocate of human rights.
And quite apart from the US (28 executions in 2015, not counting drone attacks, "targeted killings" and other extrajudicial murders), we have to remember that on the UN Council we can find such vigorous defenders of human rights as China and Russia.
Beyond his research, Dr. Feshbach was "a very vigorous, active supporter of human rights," said Dr. Kurt Gottfried, an emeritus professor of physics at Cornell University and the chairman of the Union of Concerned Scientists.
But at the very least the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, will face a vigorous public demonstration about human rights next week at the start of his state visit to the UK.
And if the Human Rights Council were purely a talking shop, in which countries held vigorous discussions about which human rights were fundamental and how they should be observed, then that too might serve some useful purpose; holding one's corner in a public argument does not have to compromise anyone's integrity.
"We have vigorous disagreement in the area of human rights," Biden said as the third annual U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue got underway.
He enjoyed parallel careers as actor, screenwriter and director and was also, especially in recent years, a vigorous political polemicist campaigning against abuses of human rights.
AIDS activists successfully engaged in vigorous advocacy that linked health outcomes and human rights deprivations.
